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Quarterly Newsletter From Dean Geeta Anand

March 27, 2024

Spring 2024 Dear Berkeley Journalism community: With great optimism about the future of our school, I share with you news of the largest gift in the history of Berkeley Journalism: Alum Angela Filo (’99) and her husband David Filo, the co-founder of Yahoo, have pledged $10 million to Berkeley Journalism. This foundational gift in our five-year $54 million…

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Quarterly Newsletter from Dean Geeta Anand

June 15, 2023

Dear Berkeley Journalism Community, We live in a moment like no other. The threats to democratic culture posed by weaponized disinformation, partisan disharmony, and rising authoritarianism driven by advances in technology show no sign of abating. And the traditional media system has yet to fully grapple with how our changing world requires a very different…

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Quarterly Newsletter From Dean Geeta Anand

November 30, 2022

Dear Berkeley Journalism Community, It’s such a beautiful thing to see the future being created every day at Berkeley Journalism. Getting to know the students, faculty and staff, seeing the work they showcase and publish, sitting in on classes and listening to extraordinary faculty inspire their students to do more and better: The future of…

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November 2021 Dean’s Letter

November 22, 2021

November 22, 2021 Dear Berkeley Journalism Community, I write at a time of deeply felt gratitude. Gratitude for our extraordinary faculty, students and staff, all working together to navigate this still upside down world. I honor their resilience, their compassion and their utter dedication to our goal of changing the face of who gets to…

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November 2020 Dean’s Letter

November 23, 2020

Dear Berkeley Journalism Community, My name is Geeta Anand, and as the new dean of Berkeley Journalism, this is my first quarterly note to you, our devoted community of friends, allies, alumni and supporters. I write to express how thrilled, humbled and inspired I am to serve as dean of this 52-year-old school. I also…

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May 2020 Dean’s Letter

May 6, 2020

  Dear friends of Berkeley Journalism, It’s an irony of the pandemic that at the same time many of us face a daily regimen of confinement and isolation, we are part of a worldwide fellowship comprising billions of people to whom we’re inextricably joined. We huddle alone yet shape our futures together. There’s some comfort…

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November 2019 Dean’s Letter

November 26, 2019

  November 26, 2019 Dear friends of Berkeley Journalism, Briefly overshadowed by the now seasonal reminder of environmental vulnerability, when power outages prompted by the threat of widened wildfires forced campus to close, the fall brought renewed evidence of accomplishment among the School’s students, teachers and alumni. Berkeley Journalism led a state-wide collaboration of 30…

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April 2019 Dean’s Letter

April 23, 2019

Dear friends of Berkeley Journalism, Our Spring Welcome visit, which gives recently admitted applicants a chance to see the School up close so they can decide if they want to come, is a powerful reminder of just how strong the appeal of journalism remains. Despite the anti-media cynicism and disparagement that they’ve grown up with,…

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Dean’s Letter – November 2018

November 8, 2018

November 8, 2018 Warm greetings from North Gate Hall: It has been a nervous time at the School in the run-up to the U.S. elections, the news of mailed bombs, a murdered journalist in Istanbul and the slaughter in a Pittsburgh synagogue, and, for our day jobs, trying to create and refine new journalistic forms…

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2018 Commencement

Dean’s Letter – June 2018

June 6, 2018

June 6, 2018 Greetings from North Gate Hall: At a time when the civic mission of the news media is under assault, the rise of the #MeToo movement reminds all of us of the transformative power journalism can have when determined reporters ignore decades of neglect and expose practices that systematically disadvantage millions of people.…

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